Fairy Corpse Found!!!

[JPK]

Good morning.
I’ve recently been pointed to a very interesting website:
http://paranormal.about.com/index.htm
There is a great article on here called Fairy Corpse. Take a look at the reader comments. They are priceless.
JPK

[Z]

Interesting... Most telling that a precursory skim through search results doesn't turn up ANY news or other articles about this thing.

Besides, beings of pure energy wouldn't mummify...

[JonnyFive]

The site hosting the "fairy" story being a homepage for a guy that creates special effects products for magic shows and what-not is also a pretty big "tell."

Cool effect though, really well done.

[Anthem]

Indeed, props to it's maker... and I'm curious when the item will be up for sale ;)

[JPK]

Good afternoon.
Yes, it is a really nice prop. I have no connection to the artist other than having purchased a few effects from him in the past. All top notch stuff.
The best part about that article is the reader comments.
From what I understsand, this might be available for purchase in the future.
JPK

[ChristineR]

He mentions that there were at least 20 fairy corpses found in the graveyard. I smell a limited edition series.

Very skillful, and a very successful idea.

[Psiload]

A corpse? Big deal, we've got a live one right here...

http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html

[J. Arthur Hastur]

Rule one: No Poofters!

[The Atheist]

Doesn't live near Cottingley, does he?

[Z]

Would make a nice companion piece to the Pressed Fairy Book (http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Cottingtons-Pressed-Fairy-Book/dp/1402720335/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5634038-2708910?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175282351&sr=8-1)!

[lister]

Take a look at the reader comments. They are priceless.
JPK


I love this one :D
And it has been proven that the unicorn did exist! Look it up in the bible

[Kilgore Trout]

Indeed, props to it's maker...

God has told me to relay this message to you: Thanks. It wasn't easy.

(sorry I couldn't resist)

[Just thinking]

Indeed, props to it's maker... and I'm curious when the item will be up for sale ;)

Grotesque thought ... could these in any way have been aborted fetuses?

[Marquis de Carabas]

Freddie Mercury? I didn't know the body was missing.

[The Atheist]

He was a Queen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_queen#Terminology), not a Fairy (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fairy).

[Beady]

Grotesque thought ... could these in any way have been aborted fetuses?

I suggest Prozac.

And a book on anatomy.

[Capsid]

There was a short TV piece on the news in the UK about this last night. The guy who created this admitted it and wanted to do it for an April Fool's day prank.

[H3LL]

An old idea done differently;

Fairy Fossils (http://www.emeraldsemporium.com/Fairy_Fossils.html)

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[Big Al]

The wings look like leaves, and I find it interesting that the hair's not in scale. The body itself is quite impressive, though.

Marvellous what you can do with Plasticene. Aardman Studios, eat your hearts out!

[Just thinking]

I suggest Prozac.

And a book on anatomy.

And I suggest a lesson on sentence structure ... that was a question, not a statement.

[drapier]

Grotesque thought ... could these in any way have been aborted fetuses?

No. Next question?

[darnell11]

This looks like a work of art someone did using some type of monkey corpses, making them into mermaids. I don't know who did it, but the skeleton does resemble a small monkey. I don't know of any monkeys that small, though. I love the leave wings!

[Lonewulf]

That's one ugly corpse.

[darnell11]

Just google FeeJee mermaids.

[Just thinking]

No. Next question?

What of animals other than human? -- monkeys?

(BTW, thank you for an answer to my question.)

[Pup]

This kind of thing is a whole genre--from jackalopes to feejee mermaids, as darnell11 said, and including magician's props for voodoo/bizarre magic shows like Doug Higley's stuff. What cracks me up in the comment trail, is even after someone notes that the website is connected to someone who makes these kinds of things, posters still keep arguing over whether it's real or not.

[Beady]

And I suggest a lesson on sentence structure ... that was a question, not a statement.

Yes, I know. My point was that it takes a certain "something" that needs to be corrected, to even think of the possibility, given the photos.

[sinclairmcevoy]

I also think the wings look remarkably like leaves. Nice job though. Maybe Sylvia Browne could shed some light on this. Tell us if it's Real, like her psychic abilities....

[tube]

Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is what is properly known as a "gaff". As a former sideshow performer, it saddens me to see the slow decline of a once thriving form of entertainment. For those who are intrigued by the fairy gaff, I would like to direct you to what I believe is the finest book on the history of sideshow: Seeing is Believing by AW Stencell. Stencell does a superb job of detailing the history of gaffs in sideshow. Gaffs have been documented going back as far back as the early part of the 19th century.

http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Believing-Americas-Side-Shows/dp/1550225294

Personally, I'm more intrigued by Bigfoot than by fairies, so for me the most important gaff of the age was the "Minnesota Iceman".

(Warning: the following is a shameless self-plug for my website)

http://www.orgoneresearch.com/mysterious_creature_in_ice.htm

[The Atheist]

Minor nitpick...

Can I just suggest that to avoid drawing fishermen unnecessarily into the thread, you use a "gaffe (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaffe)" instead of a "gaff" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaff)?

Unless, of course, you're looking to gaff a saquatch, in which case, please proceed and don't forget to show us the evidence!

[tube]

Minor nitpick...

Can I just suggest that to avoid drawing fishermen unnecessarily into the thread, you use a "gaffe (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaffe)" instead of a "gaff" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaff)?

Unless, of course, you're looking to gaff a sasquatch, in which case, please proceed and don't forget to show us the evidence!

Funny, I used to always spell it "gaffe", but then I decided that was slightly pretentious, so I switched. Henceforth, I shall return to my slightly stilted verbal mannerisms...

Here is a GAFFE that lives in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum in Seaside OR.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m96/matthetube/IMG_0690.jpg

'Squatch gaffe? OK, here you go;

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m96/matthetube/IMG_0692.jpg

[darnell11]

Wow, look at those boobs! Somehow I think they wouldn't look quite like that...

[tube]

Better yet, some believe "eyeshine" is indicative of biological reality...

Hark! I shall avoid the dreaded "thread derail" and return to the focus on fairies!

I am by no means a gaffe expert, though the subject interests me. Personally, the "mummified" gaffes don't appeal to me as much, as they come across to me as "old-timey" and indicative of a time when gaffe designers didn't have recourse to modern elastomeric casting compounds. I'm more fond of slick or furry gaffs than "mummified" or desiccated gaffes.

Gimme a good "bouncer" floating in a glass jar any day!

To be blunt, I'm not too impressed by the fairy gaffe mentioned here...

[ChristineR]

Is that THE Fiji Mermaid?

[drapier]

There are some interesting exhibits at http://www.opferauction.com/sales/oaSale_022607_1.php

including the amazing parrotfish http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_840745d74ca901bc4.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=4227)

[tube]

Is that THE Fiji Mermaid?

Oh, the great thing about the Fiji Mermaid was that it spawned meta-gaffes, in the sense that others after Barnum CLAIMED that theirs was the "Original" Fiji Mermaid! Have you seen the X-files episode "Humbug"? One of the sideshow guys who ends up dead in that episode voices an explanation somewhat along these lines...

The original Cardiff Giant was copied too.

I think gaffes have entered a new, 21st century, phase; the e-bay phase. These things are now seen as sort of "outsider art" and are bought and sold as such. Gaffe builders like Doug Higley are now appreciated as the artists they are.

[Blondin]

A friend of my sister's is a professional movie fx guy and I bartended at a party at his studio once. He has a lot of his work on display there. For example he has JFK's body on an examination table in a room at the back. It's really creepy because it is SO realistic.

I don't remember what movie the other one was from but it's in a glass display case along one wall. If a burglar broke in and didn't know what the place was they would think they'd wandered into Dr Frankenstein's lab or something.

Anyway, my point is that, having seen what these guys can do up close, nothing would surprise me. Almost anything can be faked quite convincingly!

[richardm]

Indeed, props to it's maker... and I'm curious when the item will be up for sale ;)

It's on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150107258059&rd=1&rd=1) as we speak. Not too expensive at the moment, either.

[darnell11]

Here is a great site: www . the feejee mermaid. com/ gallery 1. htm
Sorry, I can't post the link. This guy creates these things as art, but some people will still think its real.

[Just thinking]

And let's not forget the Cabbit (http://www.messybeast.com/cabbit.htm) -- these live and breathe.

[Blackwell]

This woman does a really nice Fiji Mermaid, plus some cool two-headed critters and frankensquirrels:

http://www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com/fantasy/fantasy.html

[drapier]

And let's not forget the Cabbit (http://www.messybeast.com/cabbit.htm) -- these live and breathe.

I was disappointed in following your link. I was expecting a hybrid of rabbit and cabbage.

[JonnyFive]

I was disappointed in following your link. I was expecting a hybrid of rabbit and cabbage.

You're thinking of "rabbage." It's good in stews.

[Ashles]

Marie D. Jones, author of "PSIence" – science explaining the unexplained
AS A CHILD who had mystic experiences and was the daughter of a scientist, perhaps it was her destiny that Marie D. Jones would as an adult write a book investigating the connections between science and the unexplained. In PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena, Marie gives us an entertaining, highly accessible view of some of the most “out there” discoveries being made by mainstream physicists and their connections to many aspects of what we call the “supernatural.”
Oh dear - check out Stupid book (http://paranormal.about.com/od/paranormalgeneralinfo/a/aa040107.htm)
Now whether we have the scientific terminology right here and now to explain those things is the greater question. But the potential is there, just as it was hundreds of years ago when a small, select group of people set out to prove the Earth was not flat, and indeed did, despite overwhelming disbelief and opposition. There were those who simply could not wrap their minds around the possibility that the earth revolved around the sun, and yet a few brave souls said, “Yeah, it does” and the entire scientific paradigm shifted permanently.
Who exactly were this "small, select group of people" who "hundreds of years ago" "set out" to prove the Earth was not flat?
And how did this then curiously demonstrate that the earth revolved around the sun?

More stupidity:
Q: Do you think any aspects of the paranormal will be “proved” in the strict scientific sense of that word?

A: I think it is only a matter of time before somebody somehow somewhere manages to come up with undeniable proof of a ghost, UFO, poltergeist, telekinesis – you name it. Perhaps not all at once, but as scientists and paranormal researchers pool their knowledge, skills and talents, it seems inevitable.

Q: Do you think time travel is possible?

A: Absolutely. We know that time at the quantum level is not linear, and that past, present and future all exist at once. Again, it’s only a matter of time, talent and ingenuity on behalf of us “lowly humans” before we figure out a way to bend space and time to our benefit! Of course, there are many experiments that have been conducted, and some still going on, that have found success at sending a particle into the future. Okay, so it was maybe a millisecond of a millisecond of a millisecond into the future. But if that is possible, then it becomes possible, with further study, to figure out how to send that particle a second into the future. And one day a minute into the future.
Or you could just do it the easy way and make it go very fast relative to something else.

This is all from someone who has the overwhelming scientific qualifications of being "the daughter of a scientist".